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This is personal; you're speaking only for yourself. You can add one new weapon or gadget that doesn't currently exist in Star Citizen or Squadron 42. What is it?

TL;DRThe speakers jokingly pick personal favourites: a slug shotgun, an old-school rocket launcher, a chainsaw, and a mini black hole weapon.

Zac PreeceSenior Game Designer

What a question. So the big thing I want is a slug shotgun, easily. It's my favorite weapon type in games. I absolutely love them. I also want an incredibly quick...

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

No, just one.

Zac PreeceSenior Game Designer

Okay, okay. Slug shotgun. That's what I'd take, hands down.

Atil KoçkarGameplay Programmer, reload improvements

Probably a rocket launcher from one of the old-school shooters. That feels really good to use.

Pascal GreimGameplay Programmer

A chainsaw. That would be great.

Nick PeersSystems Designer III, Core Gameplay

Man, what a question. I would love some sort of gameplay kind of weapon. Maybe shoot a mini black hole and they all get sucked into the middle and then something happens. I'd love that. Something really out there.

Zac PreeceSenior Game Designer

There was a funny thing with Pascal's answer, actually, because he says chainsaw, the most Doom thing. When we were making the procedural recoil, when Pascal was testing it, he would always hip-fire the weapons and say, hey, look how cool this looks, because he basically only plays boomer shooters. So we were in a feedback loop of him making recoil purely from a hip-fire perspective, because obviously you can't ADS in a lot of boomer shooters.

Atil KoçkarGameplay Programmer, reload improvements

You should see his test level.

Pascal GreimGameplay Programmer

It's E1M1 from the original Doom. It's not for the public, but I just took the map layout to learn our editor, right? I had to learn it at one point, and I know how E1M1 looks.

Star Citizen Live›Q&A: FPS in Alpha 3.23·
Published on this date.15 Mar 2024
EpisodeFPS weapons & gear